Erik Paul Kowalski (May 5, 1973), most known as Casino Versus Japan is an American musician who works in electronic music.
As a child, Erik Kowalski was originally heavily influenced by Jan Hammer's music for Miami Vice, as well as Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre.
He worked at Atomic Records for 14 years and also wrote for the alternative fanzine Milk Magazine which also informed developments within many styles of innovative music.
In 2012, the title track from Go Hawaii was covered by Adam Peters for use as the incidental theme music for Oliver Stone's film Savages.
Huntington enthusiastically encouraged a release, however, which also resulted in the 2010 collection Night on Tape, another batch of selected tracks from the same archive.